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541+[4 ad] pages with frontispiece portrait, 2 maps (including folding pocket map), 21 full page and 25 smaller illustrations. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering on spine and gilt pictorial on cover and spine with blind stamped rule to cover edges, edges beveled. Edited by Horace Waller. First published in London by John Murray in 1874. First American edition.David Livingstone was a British Congregationalist pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and explorer in central Africa. He was the first European to see Mosi-oa-Tunya (Victoria Falls), to which he gave the English name in honor of his monarch, Queen Victoria. He is the subject of the meeting with H. M. Stanley, which gave rise to the popular quotation, "Dr Livingstone, I presume? "Perhaps one of the most popular national heroes of the late-nineteenth century in Victorian Britain, Livingstone had a mythic status, which operated on a number of interconnected levels:… Read More

London: John Murray, 1874., 1874. 2 Volumes. 8vo. xvi, 360, 6(ads); vii, [1], 346 + 20(ads). 2 folding partly coloured maps, 21 plates (incl. 2 frontis.), & 24 text illus. original blind & gilt-stamped cloth (spines faded, extremities bit frayed, inner hinges strengthened, light foxing to outer leaves in Vol. I). First Edition. The journals contain a detailed description of Livingstone’s last expedition which began in Zanzibar in 1866 and ended with his death on the south shore of Lake Tanganyika in 1873. "The two main objects of the expedition were the suppression of slavery by means of civilizing influences, and the ascertainment of the watershed in the region between Nyasa and Tanganyika. At first Livingstone thought the Nile problem had been solved by Speke, Baker and Burton, but the idea grew on upon him that the Nile sources must be sought farther south, and his last journey became in the end a forlorn hope in search of the ‘fountains’ of Herodotus." (Encyc.… Read More